The All-Big 12 Conference football teams and individual award winners have been announced. Selections are made by the league’s 12 head coaches, who are not permitted to vote for their own players.

All-Big 12 Honors Notebook:- Justin Blackmon is the first Oklahoma State player to be named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He is the sixth Cowboy athlete to win one of the major individual Big 12 awards.

- Prince Amukamara of Nebraska is the third Cornhusker to receive Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honors (Ndamukong Suh, 2009; Grant Winstrom, 1997, ‘96).

- Mike Gundy was tabbed as Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. He is the second head coach from OSU (Bob Simmons, 1997) to earn the honor.

- Taylor Martinez is the first Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year from Nebraska. Tony Jefferson is the fourth player from Oklahoma to win the top defensive freshman accolade, while Shaun Lewis is the second from Oklahoma State to capture the award.

- Dan Bailey is the second Oklahoma State player in the last three years (Dez Bryant, 2008) to earn Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Year.

- Nate Solder and Jeremy Beal were the first from their schools to capture the respective top lineman awards.

- Oklahoma has won the most major awards in the 14-year history of the Big 12 with 25. Texas is next with 22 winners, followed by Kansas State (16); Nebraska (14), Oklahoma State (10), Colorado (7), Iowa State (7), Texas Tech (7), Kansas (6), Missouri (6), Texas A&M (5) and Baylor (2).

- Entering this year, Oklahoma State had six major awards in the history of the league. In 2010, the Cowboys won four honors.